Police found an audio recording in the suspect’s phone where he declared allegiance to the Islamic State and expressed ‘his hatred for France, for the French, for democracy and the education he benefitted from in our country’
The suspected attacker, a former student at the school and a Russian national of Chechen origin, was arrested. President Emmanuel Macron said France had been ‘hit once again by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism’
The presence of the bloodsucking insect in subways, movie theaters, and trains in the French capital has led to soaring complaints on social and traditional media in recent weeks
Local grassroots organizations and international rights groups allege that French police target Black people and people of Arab descent in choosing who to stop and check
French police searched the Paris Olympic organizing committee headquarters in June as part of corruption investigations into contracts linked to the event
The new exhibition at the French National Immigration History Museum, which reopened in June, seeks to provoke reflection on French identity in a context of the rise of the extreme right
The killings at a kosher Parisian supermarket and a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, persuaded Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo that bringing the Summer Olympics back to France’s capital for the first time in a century could unite the hurting nation
The country’s political discourse has forgotten the most important cause of violence: isolation. A collective loneliness has been feeding on the economic, social and political exclusion of the grandchildren of immigrants
Governing his already-polarized country has gotten close to impossible for Macron because a suburban police officer stopped a yellow Class A Mercedes in a bus lane and fired one fatal shot into the 17-year-old driver’s chest
The events in France following the death of a 17-year-old shot by police in a Paris suburb are drawing parallels to the racial reckoning in the U.S. that began in 2020 with the killing of George Floyd
Civil disobedience takes on new forms of struggle in Paris, London and Bogotá through organized groups that paint cracked sidewalks and turn off brightly lit shop signs, but also to slash tires